Fertility in Ghana, 2025

Ghana
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.30
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Ghana is projected at 3.30 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (162 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.5 years old. In total, 897,874 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.30
Births
897,874
Births per 1,000 people
25.6
Mean age of mothers
29.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.2%
Net reproduction rate
1.48
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.9
Population
35,064,272
The net reproduction rate counts only daughters who survive to their mothers' age: below 1, each generation of women is smaller than the one before.
Mother's ageBirths per 1,000 womenShare of total fertilityBirths
10-141.60.2%3,167
15-1956.68.6%100,276
20-24136.620.7%216,474
25-29161.824.5%221,180
30-34150.222.7%189,106
35-39101.915.4%117,462
40-4440.66.2%41,045
45-4910.31.6%8,782
50-540.60.1%382